Jazz Articles about Yilian Canizares

Freedom, Not Formula: Yilian Cañizares’ Living Ritual

by Steven Roby
September 22, 2025

Yilian Cañizares's chapter unfolds in steps: singles leading into an EP and the full-length Vitamina Y (Planeta Y), written for the trio she has toured with for years. “It's my first album with a trio," she says. “They are not only my colleagues but also my friends... the backbone of the music I'm creating right now." The title is personal and purposeful: “It's inspired by all the people that I call my 'vitamin persons... ' I hope that this music ...

Fano Jazz By The Sea 2021, Part 3-3

by Andrea Rotili
November 5, 2021

Yilian Cañizares: lo Yin e lo Yang

by Serena Antinucci
November 9, 2020

Nata a L'Havana, naturalizzata svizzera, Yilian Cañizares è tra le più interessanti e promettenti artiste del jazz internazionale. Vincitrice alla Montreux Jazz Festival Competition nel 2008, ha pubblicato a suo nome, Ochumare nel 2013, Invocación nel 2015, e Águas, prodotto in collaborazione con Omar Sosa nel 2018. L'ultimo progetto della cantante, compositrice e violinista, dal titolo Erzulie, delinea un nuovo scenario musicale. Uscito un anno fa (15 novembre 2019), per l'etichetta Planeta Y (fondata dalla stessa Cañizares), è ...

Yilian Cañizares, Wildflower, Shabaka Hutchings, Vincent Courtois & New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 14, 2020

Second part of our weekly exploration of new releases [for the first part click here], showcasing new and upcoming gems with a special focus on musical forces of nature like Cuban violinist and singer Yilian Cañizares, and prolific British reedist Shabaka Hutchings (check out his South African forays with his Shabaka and the Ancestors and with Idiosyncratic guitarist Sibusile Xaba!). A special mention for Chris McCarty's Still Time to Quit Project and the new album by Wildflower. ...